I have no idea what the heck it is but this says folding@home. Is this what you are talking about?
Posted on 06/14/2008 3:52:25 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
OK, so I'll never be one of the top 10 and I'd have to almost double what I have now to even make the top 150 but persistence DOES pay off:
Rank User Score WU
200 Oshkalaboomboom 23839 163
Is "Get bent!" the right term?
I have no idea what you are talking about but if you are happy then I am happy....congrats...
I have no idea what you are talking about but if you are happy then I am happy....congrats...
um, ok
<-—trys to show enthusiasm
You might get there faster than you think.
Many of the top 100 are inactive.
For those that have not heard of the Folding@home project:
It is a distributed computing project that aims to help researchers cure Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson's Disease, among many others.
You run a small program akin to a screen saver and, rather than watch fishies swim across the screen, you fold proteins trying to help determine if it misfolds.
How does it work?: You download a safe, tested program (see link below) that is certified by Stanford University. It gets work from Stanford, runs calculations using your spare computer power, and sends the results back to the University.
Is it safe? Yes! Folding@Home rarely effects computer performance in any way and won't compromise your privacy in any way. It only uses the computing power you aren't using so it doesn't slow down other programs.
How do I get started folding for Team FreeRepublic?:
1.) Download the folding program from Stanford University's folding download page (Folding@home Client Download). Type in your desired user-name.
2.) Type in 36120 for the team number. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT - if you get the number wrong, you won't be folding for team FreeRepublic!
3.) The third question asks, "Launch automatically at machine startup, installing this as a service?" - We recommend you answer YES. Otherwise you will have to manually start the program after every reboot.
How can my computer help? Even if they were given exclusive access to all of the world's supercomputers, Stanford still wouldn't have as much processing power as they get from the supercluster of people's desktop systems Folding@home relies on. Modern supercomputers are essentially a cluster of hundreds of processors linked by fast networking. But Stanford needed the power of hundreds of thousands of processors, not just hundreds.
There's no reason to not get involved! It's free, easy, and you can know you're helping every minute without lifting a finger.
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I am talking about a project run by Stanford University that FR members participate in as a team. We donate excess CPU time to help investigate how proteins fold and what happens when they go wrong. Hopefully the research will lead to cures for diseases like Alzheimers. Read the FAQ posted by Texas_Booster, perhaps you might like to join in.
I only get 119 points per WU and I have to run one of the pcs at 50% because the CPU overheats. Progress is very slow. Having people inactive helps but they are so far ahead in points that it may be a year or so before I make it up another 50 rungs.
I have no idea what the heck it is but this says folding@home. Is this what you are talking about?
Yes, it is. Folding@home is considered such a worthwhile project that Sony makes the program available on its PS3 installation disk. You can run it as a standalone program or you can join a team. FreeRepublic has its own folding team called A Tribute To Ronald Reagan, I'm on that team and I just made it into the top 200 (the team has 500+ members). You can read more about it in the FAQ that Texas_Booster posted earlier in this thread.
Why fold them? Wouldn’t it be faster and easy just to roll them up?
You gotta know when to fold em and know when to hold em....evidently you hold yours too much(:)
I have a man that holds mine and he’s doing his job quite nicely.
Got me!
Have a father-in-law with early Parkinson's and a had Grandmother-in-law who just died with Alzheimer's. Her body was donated to a University to study the disease.
I’ve been languishing back and forth between 77 and 80 for months.
Yes, when you only have 1 or 2 CPUs to work with the going is very slow. Some of the top team members get more points in a day than we have in total.
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